The Freedom to Be Happy

Good girls, wonderful homemakers, loving mothers, faithful wives, beauties—society defines a woman through the roles she fulfills, and “a woman’s quality” is judged by how diligently she performs those roles. Society gives us more and more rights and freedoms—freedoms that help us perform our duties even better in an endless role-playing game. But the list doesn’t include the most important one: the freedom to simply be happy. And that skill is far more important than the ability to cook borscht or to have a higher-education diploma.

We don’t just break out of the spellbound circle—we teach the same thing to our children. And we look for the reasons for our failures in mistakes made by our parents, in heredity, and in unfavorable circumstances. The fact is: with any baggage, you can find a path to happiness if you know the algorithms.